Hacker News: autra

New comment by autra in "Nix – Death by a Thousand Cuts"

autra — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 13:38:04 +0000

To counterpoint this, I'm an happy nixos desktop user. It's not perfect, but still vastly better than a non declarative distro for my taste.

New comment by autra in "Ubuntu 24.04 Noble Numbat"

autra — Thu, 02 May 2024 11:58:18 +0000

I use vagrant quite a lot at work. This will impact me a lot :-/

New comment by autra in "Ask HN: Is PostgreSQL better than MySQL?"

autra — Fri, 28 Apr 2023 07:20:41 +0000

I can understand it being weird, but when you get used to it, it's really really handy, for instance to manage user rights. I've read somewhere that actually, pg schemas compares more with mysql database, postgresql databases being an additional level wrapping it.

New comment by autra in "PostgreSQL upgrades are hard"

autra — Mon, 27 Jun 2022 11:28:51 +0000

Yes, and usually, it means you need to use the full binary path unfortunately (because debian wrappers embedded in the package select the version from your 5432 cluster).

New comment by autra in "Why SELECT * is bad for SQL performance (2020)"

autra — Mon, 15 Feb 2021 21:24:08 +0000

Fortunately, stars in sql are also really bad for maintenance ;-) So I guess there is indeed no reason to use them!

New comment by autra in "The rise of remote working will continue"

autra — Tue, 02 Jul 2019 15:58:10 +0000

Not my experience.

That being said, if your team was mainly non-remote with some remote employees, then I'm not surprised: it is the worst possible organization and a motivation killer for the remote person. Every article about experience of remote work I've read says: "don't put remote people on non-remote team" and I wholeheartedly agree.

New comment by autra in "Dangers of CSV Injection"

autra — Tue, 10 Oct 2017 07:55:27 +0000

> The documented way is prefixing with a ' character. It doesn't have the length issue either.

It is suggested in comments, but the author answered

> Yes, this prevents formula expansion... once. Unfortunately Excel's own CSV exporter doesn't write the ', so if the user saves the ‘safe’ file and then loads it again all the problems are back.

:-/